Aussie Hard Rock and Metal has rarely sounded this good in recent years. We may have had Midnite City and Reckless Love down-under recently and Crazy Lixx and Eclipse almost made it, but who’d […]
Aside from the off-putting name making you think that the band might just be related to the pop legend and the fact that ‘Herd Instinct’ that opens is just a minute of ‘atmospheric’ waffle that […]
Back in the very first days of the Rockpit I remember listening to a bunch of albums I’d just bought on a trip to the US. One of the very best was ‘Strip Rock Roll’ […]
Fremantle loves The Darkness and The Darkness loves Fremantle and over the years we’ve had a pretty good thing going on. Tonight’s first night of The Darkness’ ‘Easter is Cancelled’ Australian Tour is no […]
Think of all the ‘super groups’ over all the years who have under-delivered when they’ve committed their talents to recording. You can probably count on the fingers of one hand those that have nailed it? […]
Vocalist Dave Niederberger and guitarist Marco Troxler of ‘Fighter V’ met by chance on a Saturday night in a bar in the middle of the old town of Lucerne, Switzerland and hatched their plans for […]
If you love your 80’s Hard Rock then 30 years after the close of that glorious decade its hard to find a band as good as Crazy Lixx at taking the essence of Arena Rock […]
Five years ago, Danny Vaughn (Tyketto) and Dan Reed (Dan Reed Network) decided to combine their talents in a joint project: a live acoustic touring act called Snake Oil & Harmony. The project led […]
Swiss hard rock legends Gotthard release their much anticipated new Album ‘#13’ via Nuclear Blast on 13th March this year. The band features Australian Nic Maeder on vocals. We caught up with Nic to find […]
I was lucky enough to see the original Great White more than a few times back in the day and saw one of the very last few shows Jack played with the band in Henderson […]
As overblown press releases go (and as a proud Northerner) I love this quote that came with Biff’s first ever solo album “The English North is everything you saw in Game of Thrones and more. […]
Tony Harnell in Australia… I never thought I’d hear those words… But it’s true, the man with one of the best and most distinct voices in rock is coming down-under for a string of dates […]
I first saw FM way back on their first ever headline tour of the UK back in the day, when they were supported by White Sister. It wasn’t a show I’d expected to see, but […]
It’s hard to believe that New Zealand’s finest Metallers Devilskin hit double-digits this year – but they are indeed ten years old in 2020! More importantly though they are back with a bang and […]
A new Gotthard album is always welcome, and ‘#13’ the band’s 13th studio record and fourth with Nic Maeder on vocals comes just three years after the wonderful ‘Free’ (2017). On the first album […]
Ron Keel is a Hard Rocking legend. Starting out with Tennessee-based ‘Lust’ he soon came to prominence first with Steeler (which at one point featured Yngwie Malmsteen) and then ‘Keel’ who toured the world at […]
If you love your Hard Rock to make you think of the Glammier side of the Sunset Strip circa 1987 then Midnite City is the band for you. Hailing from my old stomping ground of […]
There’s not that many bands I’ve traveled continents to see but Firehouse is one of them, making a trip from Australia back in 2008 to catch them (OK I’ll admit and a few others) at […]
In the first part of our interview we looked back at the early days of Enuff Z’Nuff you can catch up with Part One HERE. In Part Two we look deeper at ‘Beautiful Things,’ Enuff […]
These days Paul Judge makes music with ‘Gunners’ possibly Australia’s best Guns ‘n’ Roses cover band , but when we first met he was bassist for ‘Baby Jane’ the West Australian rockers who captured the […]
XYZ is a great band and one of those few bands that got me on the road seeking them out in the early 90’s when they played the Astoria in London on a rare visit […]
To me Donnie Vie is one of the greatest song-writers of his generation. When I listen to the music he has made over the years it’s still never fails to connect, and still to this […]
Sometimes an album just has a great vibe and the sound captures a moment in time.’Welcome To My World’ is one of those albums where every song seems strangely familiar even though you’ve never heard […]
By the time you read this Bang Tango will have played their comeback show at The Whisky in Hollywood. The show is sold out. It’s a reunion that many thought might never happen and one […]
Sadly no one sent me this one at the end of last year so here’s another great release from 2019 that we didn’t get a chance to review it. Shark Island of course back […]
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